Abstract Most conventional statistical methods aiming at defining geochemical concentration thresholds for separating anomalies from background have limited effectiveness in areas with complex geological settings and variable lithology. In this paper, median+2MAD as a method of exploratory data analysis (EDA) and concentration-area (C-A) fractal model as two effective approaches in separation g...

Fractal Brownian motions have been introduced as a statistical descriptor of natural images. We analyze the Gaussian scale-space scaling of derivatives of fractal images. On the basis of this analysis we propose a method for estimation of the fractal dimension of images and scale-space normalization used in conjunction with automatic scale selection assuming either constant energy over scale or...

Fractal dimension has been found not suitable to be used solely in classifying natural earth terrain. This is due to the fact that surfaces with different texture may portray similar fractal dimensions. Evertsz and Mandelbrot [Evertsz, et. al. 1992] suggested that multifractal dimension may be a more appropriate parameter than fractal dimension in describing geometrical properties of a fractal ...

The project aims to explore two fractal models (by Lowen and Liebovitch) of ion channel kinetics, and how this affects spike train patterns. The project also intends to extend the Liebovitch model and explore how fractal dimension affects potassium ion channel conductance profiles, and the behavior and rate of action potentials. 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Fractal patterns have been used to model...

A total of 21 planar fractal grids pertaining to three different fractal families have been used in two different wind tunnels to generate turbulence. The resulting turbulent flows have been studied using hot wire anemometry. Irrespective of fractal family, the fractal-generated turbulent flows and their homogeneity, isotropy, and decay properties are strongly dependent on the fractal dimension...

Background:Leukemia is cancer of blood and bone marrow cells. In general, there are four types of leukemia: chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).  Fractal geometry can be introduced as one of the effective ways to detect this type of cancer. In this study, with introduc...